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Here, the authors sought to investigate abdominal girth and paraspinal muscle size as risk factors for PJK.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title><jats:p>All patients undergoing thoracolumbosacral fusion greater than 2 levels at a single institution over a 5-year period with \u2265 6 months of radiographic follow-up were considered for inclusion. PJK was defined as kyphosis \u2265 20\u00b0 between the upper instrumented vertebra (UIV) and two supra-adjacent vertebrae. Operative and radiographic parameters were recorded, including pre- and postoperative sagittal vertical axis (SVA), sacral slope (SS), lumbar lordosis (LL), pelvic tilt, pelvic incidence (PI), and absolute value of the pelvic incidence\u2013lumbar lordosis mismatch (|PI-LL|), as well as changes in LL, |PI-LL|, and SVA. The authors also considered relative abdominal girth and the size of the paraspinal muscles at the UIV.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title><jats:p>One hundred sixty-nine patients met inclusion criteria. On univariate analysis, PJK was associated with a larger preoperative SVA (p &lt; 0.001) and |PI-LL| (p = 0.01), and smaller SS (p = 0.004) and LL (p = 0.001). PJK was also associated with more positive postoperative SVA (p = 0.01), \u0394SVA (p = 0.01), \u0394|PI-LL| (p &lt; 0.001), and \u0394LL (p &lt; 0.001); longer construct length (p = 0.005); larger abdominal girth\u2013to-muscle ratio (p = 0.007); and smaller paraspinal muscles at the UIV (p &lt; 0.001). Higher postoperative SVA (OR 1.1 per cm), smaller paraspinal muscles at the UIV (OR 2.11), and more aggressive reduction in |PI-LL| (OR 1.03) were independent predictors of radiographic PJK on multivariate logistic regression.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title><jats:p>A more positive postoperative global sagittal alignment and smaller paraspinal musculature at the UIV most strongly predicted PJK following thoracolumbosacral fusion.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3171\/2019.3.spine19108","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,26]],"date-time":"2019-07-26T22:57:39Z","timestamp":1564181859000},"page":"380-388","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":62,"title":["Paraspinal muscle size as an independent risk factor for proximal junctional kyphosis in patients undergoing thoracolumbar fusion"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Zach","family":"Pennington","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Neurosurgery and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ethan","family":"Cottrill","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departments of Neurosurgery and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"A. 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